The Borderlands of Sanaq is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its fear of technology, anti-smoking policies, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 411 million Sanaqians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government prioritizes Administration, with Welfare, Spirituality, and Law & Order also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 83.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Sanaqian economy, worth 26.3 trillion stones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 63,922 stones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced, the election for Leader's office's janitor is heating up, NationStates is now a popular brand of laxatives despite Max Barry's protests, and the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sanaq's national animal is the camel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sanaq is ranked 52,681^st in the world and 5^th in The Story of Civilization for Largest Black Market, with 2.34 trillion Standard Monetary Units.